In the Agile Scrum framework, a ScrumBut is a “reason why [you] can’t take full advantage of Scrum to solve the problems and realize the benefits.” Clearly, build problems are traditionally one of the biggest ScrumButs. Meister removes the scrum butt by taking variables out of the hands of operators managing the builds.

Ask for a build and get a build. Ask for continuous integration and test automation and coalescence and get it with Meister. Product owners should not be losing cycles to debugging builds, tweaking parameters to get different types of builds or in resolving confusion about what did or did not happen in a build or continuous integration workflow.

The client-server architecture and highly reusable build and workflow metadata extend the ScrumBut elimination to all developer machines and continuous integration build servers, creating a highly consistent build. Team members working on these different machines know exactly what to expect.

Since they know what to expect from the build, they can focus on resolving actual integration issues and testing rather than trying to make the build work in a consistent manner.